A transcript of Paul Holmgren’s conference call today with reporters: Q: How hard was it to trade Simon Gagne? “Well, anytime you’re talking about a young man that has brought as much to the organization that Simon has, it’s very difficult.” Q: You have eight defenseman are you a little overloaded there or does this set up another move? “No I think … having eight defensemen is a luxury, but we certainly feel comfortable right now and moving forward with the team, whether something else comes up over the course of the summer we’ll see. If something comes up that makes sense, obviously we’ll look at that but I think we were very fortunate last year. Our top four defensemen, over the course of the 105 games we played, I think they missed three games among the four of them. I’m not sure we can count on being that fortunate again, so we certainly believe we’ve upgraded our defense, not only in numbers, but in ability to play the game.” Q: The moves you made on defense have more been for guys who are either stay-at-home type, or more tenacious, physical types other than offensive defensemen, which you already had. Is that something that you felt was missing last year that you really needed to upgrade

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